consistent

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Of a regularly occurring, dependable nature.

   “The consistent use of Chinglish in China can be very annoying, apart from some initial amusement.”

2. sıfat Compatible, accordant.
3. sıfat Of a set of statements: such that no contradiction logically follows from them.

   “When we ask whether ideas or terms are consistent or inconsistent with each other, the question really is, in what manner the relation presupposed between the ideas qualifies them for being combined as terms of a judgment.”

4. isim Objects or facts that are coexistent, or in agreement with one another.

   “The Diurnal motion of the primum mobile, is it not from Eaſt to Weſt? And the annual motion of the Sun through the Ecliptick, is it not on the contrary from Weſt to Eaſt? How then can you make theſe motions being conferred on the Earth, of contraries to become conſiſtents?”

5. isim A kind of penitent who was allowed to assist at prayers, but was not permitted to receive the holy sacraments.

   “[F]rom the fourth century onwards, the Eastern Church divided penitents into four classes. […] The consistentes (the last class—συστάντες, consistentes) "stand together with the faithful, and do not go out with the catechumens. Last comes participation in the sacraments (ἁγιασμάτων)."”